High 7.8Published May 8, 2026

CVE-2026-43290media: uvcvideo: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 10:40 AM ET)

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: uvcvideo: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure Return buffers if streaming fails to start due to uvc_pm_get() error. This bug may be responsible for a warning I got running while :; do yavta -c3 /dev/video0; done on an xHCI controller which failed under this workload. I had no luck reproducing this warning again to confirm. xhci_hcd 0000:09:00.0: HC died; cleaning up usb 13-2: USB disconnect, device number 2 WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 29386 at drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c:1803 vb2_start_streaming+0xac/0x120

CVSS: 7.8 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Linux
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Aug 5, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name)	from 7dd56c47784a466b03df62ca766207f483353cdc before 69c32df23bed6001864779b965fa009bcd9a26de; from 7dd56c47784a466b03df62ca766207f483353cdc before a5c01f15809d1d2c319d8bfb11d071df11ab731c; 7dd56c47784a466b03df62ca766207f483353cdc builds before 4cf3b6fd54ebb1ebc977bdc47fb6cfcf9a471a22	CNA record
linux linux_kernel linux:linux_kernel	from 6.17 before 6.18.16; from 6.19 before 6.19.6	NVD

References

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69c32df23bed6001864779b965fa009bcd9a26de	patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5c01f15809d1d2c319d8bfb11d071df11ab731c	patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cf3b6fd54ebb1ebc977bdc47fb6cfcf9a471a22	patch

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